Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, responds to a reporters question after his scheduled meeting with the Senate Intelligence Committee was canceled, on September 19, 2017 in Washington, DC. The committee is investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI

Michael Cohen (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Director of the International Affairs Program at The New School. He also works as Advisor to the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires.

Before coming to the New School in 2001, he was a Visiting Fellow of the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University.

From 1972 to 1999, he had a distinguished career at the World Bank. He was responsible for much of the urban policy development of the Bank over that period and, from 1994-1998, he served as the Senior Advisor to the Bank's Vice-President for Environmentally Sustainable Development. He has worked in over fifty countries and was heavily involved in the Bank's work on infrastructure, environment, and sustainable development.

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